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Fueling the mind: Brain metabolism in health and neurodevelopmental disorders
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A framework for neural organoids, assembloids and transplantation studies
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Adeno-associated viral tools to trace neural development and connectivity across amphibians
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Projecting the morbidity burden of mental and behavioral disorders associated with increasing humid heat in Shanghai
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Mapping developmental dynamics of autism spectrum disorder mouse models at single-cell resolution
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Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue
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A protocol for data harmonization in large cohorts
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Rethinking ethics in interdisciplinary and big data-driven neuroscience projects
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A novel image segmentation method based on spatial autocorrelation identifies A-type potassium channel clusters in the thalamus
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Large-scale population data enrichment in mental health research
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Shared behavioural impairments in visual perception and place avoidance across different autism models are driven by periaqueductal grey hypoexcitability in Set haploinsufficient mice
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Mapping the brain’s gene-regulatory maze
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Hereditary amyloidosis: Insights into a fibrinogen A variant protein
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Imaging brain tissue architecture across millimeter to nanometer scales
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Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue
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Addressing global environmental challenges to mental health using population neuroscience: A review
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Tempering expectations: Considerations on the current state of stem cells therapy for autism treatment
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